HKBWS BBS 香港觀鳥會新聞組


    
      
        HKBWS BBS 香 港 觀 鳥 會 新 聞 組
        (http://www.hkbws.org.hk/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl)
      

        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Photo Gallery 相片分享 II >>  Giant Kingfisher Kenya
        
(Message started by: PWMK on Aug 28^th, 2005, 4:20pm)

Title: Giant Kingfisher Kenya
Post by PWMK on Aug 28^th, 2005, 4:20pm

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/pwmk/pwmk_045.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/temp/guest/peter/pm0002.jpg
04/8/2005
Lake Naivasha.
Tech Stuff: Canon 20D, 400mm lens.

Title: Re: Giant Kingfisher-Kenya
Post by HF_Cheung on Aug 28^th, 2005, 5:18pm

Oh, interesting moulting pattern! Look at the new and old feathers on the flight feathers.

Starting from the innermost primary,
primiaries 1-4 are old,
primary 5 is moulting,
parimaries 6-10 are new.
Normally primaries moult in the order or 1-10. It seems to be opposite on this bird.

Starting from the outermost secondary,
secondary 1 is moulting,
secondaries 2-8 are old,
the rest of the secondaries are new. It seems there are two moulting centers for the secondaries.

The tertials are old.
The greater primaries overts are also old.

Thanks for the photo.

Title: Re: Giant Kingfisher-Kenya
Post by HF_Cheung on Aug 28^th, 2005, 5:32pm

I like to add my photo here.
Lake Nasvisha, Kenya, 7 Aug 2005
Canon 10D, 500mm/f4
male
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/hfcheung/hfcheung052.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/aphfcheung/IMG_6874.JPG

female
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/hfcheung/hfcheung053.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/aphfcheung/IMG_6863.JPG

Title: Re: Giant Kingfisher-Kenya
Post by Forrest FONG on Aug 28^th, 2005, 7:20pm

Hi Peter and Ho Fai,

Very excellent capture and gorgeous photos! :o

Please kindly observe the format requirements of the photos.
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=PhotoGallery;action=display;num=1057939115

Regards,

Forrest 8)

Title: Re: Giant Kingfisher-Kenya
Post by KK Hui on Aug 28^th, 2005, 8:22pm

on 08/28/05 at 17:32:56, HF_Cheung wrote:

I'm impressed with this one ... ::)
A terrific shot, HF!

KK Hui FRPS
www.geocities.com/kkhui_001